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[iCore]

I installed 10.7.3 (10.7.0 install + 10.7.3 update from OSX software update tool) yesterday on my GA-EX58-UD5 (Biod F12) with a Nvidia GT9500 using DD script v6.54

Everything went great, and I got a fully working Lion (sound, network, sleep) at the first try

Here is my feedback and comments (in blue) to DD user guide (taken from the first post of this topic)

• Pre requisites:
  - A running 10.6.x installation
  - A new partition for 10.7
  - A dedicated drive (HDD or USB stick) for the installer.
  - And of course, a 10.7 DVD or ESD download from the app store.
  
• If using a hard drive or flash drive, partition it as MBR. (GUID partitions cause the BIOS to lock up in my experience on Gigabyte boards.)
  => This will not be the final Lion installation, it is only used a temporary installer drive (might be obvious to experts, but it was not for me the first time I tried to install Lion)
  Just FYI:
  => I used an external HDD (ATA by the way) connected using USB (firewire did not work)
  => Only ~5GB of disk space was required, so a 8Gb USB stick might be enough.
  
• Mount Lion ISO/DVD. If you have a ESD download from the App Store, make sure it is in the default Applications folder or place it on the Desktop.
  
• From script, run Create boot disk (menu #15) and select the default Boot Disk option.
  
• Select a boot drive from the list of the storage devices and create the boot disk, skipping EFI strings setup. No other steps are needed to prepare this boot drive. However, you may install a DSDT patch file, if you wish.
  => selected boot drive is the "temproary installer" one (the USB ATA drive in my case)
  => Very easy step indeed: just confirm each default choice in the Boot Disk procedure.
  
• Restart and boot into new drive, "Mac OS X Base System."
  
• Install Lion on drive of your choice.
  
• Boot back into your current Snow Leopard system.
  
• Run HackInstaller and select your Lion install drive as your target drive (menu #12).
  
• Install the Chameleon v2.1-RC5 bootloader (menu #2 and bootloader selection #3).
  => Chameleon was choice #2 (instead of #3) in my case.
  
• Run Kext/kernel installer (menu #3).
  => Note: There should be no SleepEnabler in the kext list
  
• Double-check that the verbose flag (-v) is set in the boot plist (menu #7). This is useful for troubleshooting.
  
• Install DSDT patch (menu #5).
  
• => Reboot, and choose the Lion drive, boot on Lion.
  
  At this point Lion (10.7.0) is running, sound is OK but sleep does not work (reboot at wake up)
  
• => Run software update and update to 10.7.3
  
• => [Optional] Reboot to Lion: You should have a working 10.7.3 but without sound nor sleep working.
  
• => Reboot on Snow Leopard
  
• => In the HackInstaller/10.7/misc_patches Move the SleepEnaler kext from repository to misc_patches directory
  
• => Run script, select your Lion disk, and run Kext/kernel installer (menu #3)
  This time, sleep enabler should appear in the list
  Install Kexts, this will fix the sound and sleep issue.
  
• => Reboot on Lion, everything should work fine.

MAJ, thanks a lot for your script and your work.

[Generic George]

L3B3R, on 20 March 2012 - 11:06 PM, said:

Just run the kext script again with previously working settings and reboot.

That didn't work, but re-installing 10.7, updating it to 10.7.3 from the combo updater and then running the script did work.

[lemarqq]

Please give me some advices, guys.
I could not install SL on my PC, some time ago, and i think it was something about my videocard which is PNY GTX 285.
Now i want to try to install Lion OSX. Do you think i will have the same problem if i have the same videocard ?
Can you help me, please ?
Thanks a million.
PS :    my specs
Gigabyte GA EX58 UD5
Intel i7  920@ 2.67GHz
6 GB DDR3
SSD OCZ Vertex 2 50 GB + WD 6400 AAKS
Creative SB X-FI Xtreme Gamer
PNY GTX 285

[tsunoo]

lemarqq, on 22 March 2012 - 12:59 PM, said:

Please give me some advices, guys.
I could not install SL on my PC, some time ago, and i think it was something about my videocard which is PNY GTX 285.
Now i want to try to install Lion OSX. Do you think i will have the same problem if i have the same videocard ?
Can you help me, please ?
Thanks a million.

PNY GTX 285

See here

http://forums.macrum...d.php?t=1287801

[ssuuki9]

i tried the hackinstaller script but did not get past the first screen asking for administrator password, new at doing this, tried searching the thread for 'administrator' and 'password', i don't use terminal a lot but wanted to try out a usb flash drive

[tsunoo]

ssuuki9, on 26 March 2012 - 12:50 AM, said:

i tried the hackinstaller script but did not get past the first screen asking for administrator password, new at doing this, tried searching the thread for 'administrator' and 'password', i don't use terminal a lot but wanted to try out a usb flash drive

sorry but if you start without any terminal knowledge you probably won't make it.

Here is the tip: administrator is  simply your user login  and password is YOUR password

[lemarqq]

tsunoo, on 22 March 2012 - 02:35 PM, said:

See here

http://forums.macrum...d.php?t=1287801

Can i use the retail DVD ? Do i have to use EFI boat loader, to boot the DVD ? I dont have any other OSX, only Windows 7.
Thanks

[tsunoo]

lemarqq, on 27 March 2012 - 10:18 AM, said:

Can i use the retail DVD ? Do i have to use EFI boat loader, to boot the DVD ? I dont have any other OSX, only Windows 7.
Thanks

yes you can use the retail DVD and you need another OS X (try using a virtual OS X or use another solution)

[ssuuki9]

tsunoo, on 26 March 2012 - 01:27 PM, said:

sorry but if you start without any terminal knowledge you probably won't make it.

Here is the tip: administrator is  simply your user login  and password is YOUR password

the script outputs that the username is not in the sudoers file, is all.

oh figured it out i have to be on the administrator account for it to run

Edited by ssuuki9, 29 March 2012 - 12:40 AM.

[lemarqq]

tsunoo, on 28 March 2012 - 06:31 PM, said:

yes you can use the retail DVD and you need another OS X (try using a virtual OS X or use another solution)

Why do i need another OS X , actually ? I dont understand, please explain.

[tsunoo]

You need another OS X because the script released by DD (see first post) runs only on a mac.

But you should forget it: The script is very good but you need some knowledge to create a perfect PC/OSX system.
You should read the first post and analyze it if you want to success

[ssuuki9]

solved it many cups of coffee later

used the usb stick option, with 8 kexts, graphics enabler=no (for the install and first boot of partition), and three boot flags for this lappy (-v, -arch=i386, -cpus=1) and have now got to the osx installation screen where the first step is to pick the language.  right after that i get an error dialog with the message, "There was a problem reading the Mac OSX installation disk.  Carefully clean the disk, and then try re-installing."  this doesn't happen on the i-mac so its not a bad retail DVD.

-the last three lines of the installer log:
Opening OSInstall package '/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg'.
PFPackage::packageWithURL - can't instantiate package: /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg
Couldn't verify Mac OS X (Server) Install media.

- needed to d/l and replace OSInstall and OSInstall.mpkg on the usb key with a patched version [ver.10D575 (10.6.3) by deviato] for MBR installs, found on this forum.  was easy to do once i figured out then the error dialog does not appear, and can partition guid with hfs+ partitions, hackinstaller did the rest, great design, it was easy with this installer

so it works on this notebook so far..guid partition booted with chameleon.  great job DD!  much thanks to get this working!

Edited by ssuuki9, 30 March 2012 - 07:18 PM.

[tsunoo]

ssuuki9, on 30 March 2012 - 12:59 AM, said:

tsunoo - i used the usb stick option, with the 8 kexts i need, and three boot flags for this lappy (-v, -arch=i386, -cpus=1) and have now got to the osx installation screen with trackpad working where the first step is to pick the language.  right after that i get an error dialog with the message, "There was a problem reading the Mac OSX installation disk.  Carefully clean the disk, and then try re-installing."  this dosn't happen on the i-mac so its not a bad retail DVD.
the last three lines of the installer log:

sorry I can't help :-/
I only found this https://discussions....tart=0&tstart=0

[Generic George]

So has anyone tried this with a 2011 socket board? I'm getting the upgrade itch.

[maleorderbride]

When I run the script, mount my 10.7.0 retail image, and start the installer, select my disk, select a Retail DVD Installer, then select the disk again within the OS X Installer.

It starts installing Mac OS X to my disk, then fails within a few minutes.  The error is:

"Mac OS X could not be installed on your computer.  The installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail.  Contact the software manufacturer for assistance."

Any ideas why this happens?  I used the old 10.6 script several times in the past without issues =/

[tsunoo]

maleorderbride, on 12 April 2012 - 06:42 PM, said:

When I run the script, mount my 10.7.0 retail image, and start the installer, select my disk, select a Retail DVD Installer, then select the disk again within the OS X Installer.

It starts installing Mac OS X to my disk, then fails within a few minutes.  The error is:

"Mac OS X could not be installed on your computer.  The installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail.  Contact the software manufacturer for assistance."

Any ideas why this happens?  I used the old 10.6 script several times in the past without issues =/

Try to install it with the minimal stuff (without printers for example)

[jvincent08]

I hope someone can help me here.. I've been trying to get a RAID array to boot, but no matter what method or boot loader I use, I keep getting "can't find /mach_kernel". I'm using a working non-raid install that I've been cloning over to my ssd raid each time I try a new method. I've tried using this script, as well as manually copying the boot loader files to the helper partitions, for both chameleon and chimera. I've tried searching but nothing comes up (maybe my google fu is weak). Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.

[wolfienuke]

I have some audio problems again with my setup, and I am just wondering if anyone has a foolproof audio fix for the GA-EX58-UD5. I can modify DSDT and change any files, but I'm looking for a solution with minimal changes to the file system.

My issue is popping and stuttering while using a modified DSDT and AppleHDA.kext

Can anyone lend me a hand?

[tsunoo]

wolfienuke, on 13 April 2012 - 10:09 PM, said:

I have some audio problems again with my setup, and I am just wondering if anyone has a foolproof audio fix for the GA-EX58-UD5. I can modify DSDT and change any files, but I'm looking for a solution with minimal changes to the file system.

My issue is popping and stuttering while using a modified DSDT and AppleHDA.kext

Can anyone lend me a hand?

I have the same problem since 3 years... and absolutely no solution (using a spdif cable)

[lemarqq]

lemarqq, on 16 July 2011 - 09:52 AM, said:

I tried few weeks ago to install Snow Leopard but for some reason i couldn't and i guess because of my videocard.
Anyway, i gave up. Now i wanna ask you if i should try again, with Lion OSX.
Do you think i will have the same problem ?
Thanks.

I tried with OSX Lion, but the same story. I dont know how could i fix this.
Everytime when i try to install SL, after the option "Press -v"  or F8, all i see is the grey apple for about 1-2 seconds, and then rebooting ...
Please explain how to use GraphicsEnabler=Yes as the bootloader flag in the boot.Do i have to modify the bootable DVD files ? I'm pretty sure there is something about my GTX 285 graphic card.
Could someone explain, please, how to fix this problem ? I dont want to upgrade / change my graphic card.
Thanks in advance.